Chinese New Year of the Snake handbook content and short text

Snake Symbol: 2013 is the Year of the Snake in the Chinese Zodiac. The Snake is one of the 12 zodiac signs and ranks sixth in the Earthly Branches, after the Dragon and before the Horse. When the AD year number is divided by 12 and the remainder is 9, it is the Year of the Snake. Snake gives people the impression that it is ugly, hideous and scary, but in the ancient Chinese folk culture, snake used to be a symbol of beauty and a worshipped image. The snake was the earliest totem of the Chinese people, a kind of primitive religious god, later known as the God of the Patriarchs. The present-day totem, the dragon, evolved from the snake, and in Chinese mythology, the king of men, Fuxi, as well as the Nuwa clan, were both human-faced and snake-bodied.

The origin of the snake: ①A long, long time ago, the snake and the frog are friends, but the snake has four legs, but the frog has no legs, rely on the stomach wriggle crawl, but the snake is lazy, the frog is very hardworking it not only want to catch insects for the snake to eat, but also to help people catch pests. Therefore, human beings certainly hate snakes and love frogs.

The snake found that people hate him, he began to hate people, it see people on the bite, see animals on the eat, make the earth is very restless. Seeing this, the God of Land sued to the Heavenly Palace. The Jade Emperor summoned the snake to the Heavenly Palace and advised him to change his ways, but the snake spoke out of turn and had no intention of repenting. The Jade Emperor was furious, and ordered the divine soldiers to cut off the snake's four legs, so as not to harm people, from then on, the snake lost four legs, the Jade Emperor and see the frog has merit, the snake's four legs to the frog.

After the frog had legs, it was more diligent. The snake knew the mistake, determined to reform themselves, also began to eat pests and drag the long body, no one said for the good of mankind, the snake also followed the dragon to learn to rule the water, the snake died, but also their own bodies to human beings, as a medicine to save many patients. The Jade Emperor saw the snake know the past can change, upward, in the Zetian twelve zodiac, let it ranked in the back of the dragon, when the human Zodiac.

After the snake when the zodiac, of course, do not take the initiative to hurt people, once the evil thought of sprouting, it will be turned into a layer of evil thought skin molt, in order to show that the re-creation of people. Nevertheless, it still holds a grudge against the frog for possessing its four legs, and therefore, until today, the snake still bites the frog when it sees it. The frog knows that it has taken advantage of the snake, so it trembles with fear when it sees the snake and rushes to avoid it.

Obviously, the snake is relying on its own efforts to become the zodiac.

② No coincidence, the world's major civilizations in addition to China, Babylon, Greece, Egypt, India and other countries, there are twelve phases of the folklore, and without exception, there are snakes. ＜＜The serpent in the Garden of Eden, as recorded in the Bible, dared to risk God's forbidden laws and inspired Adam and Eve, the originators of mankind, to eat the forbidden fruit, so that mankind would henceforth know good and evil, and have seven emotions and six desires. This feat of the snake is as great as that of Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven to the earth.

The famous Mayan temple of Kukulkan, that is, the meaning of the temple of the feathered serpent. Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, was favored by a snake that symbolized wisdom and longevity. Zeus's envoy Hermes always held in his hand a two-snake staff to symbolize the privilege. As for India, it is a country full of spiritual snake worship. In fact, the legendary founder of Yan Huang, Nuwa, a clan, is precisely to snake totem worship. This series of phenomena shows that the snake and human beings have a very long time this bond, the Chinese nation will be the snake as their own zodiac sign is not surprising.

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